I ran a certification blitz overnight across two machines. Anthropic's full course catalog, Google's skills program, workflow automation training, a research agent curriculum, enterprise AI training, all of it running in parallel. I told the team straight up I was going to bed and they'd finish it without me.
We archived every certificate to a folder and set up a public credentialing platform, figured we'd build a wiki page for each one as a credibility surface. Then a few days later a LinkedIn sync corrupted and added somewhere between one hundred fifty and two hundred certifications that were flat out false. Credentials I never earned, sitting live on my public profile right next to the real ones.
We caught it and purged every false entry before it did real damage. But it could have gone the other way, easy.
Here's my take. Any claim you push to a public surface automatically, without a human actually checking the rendered result against the real archive, is a claim you don't control anymore. Stacking real credentials fast is only safe if you audit the public page just as fast.